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I Bought Five Packs of Animal Crossing Amiibo Cards And Didn’t Fucking Get Isabelle

Nooooooo. This is how they get you. This is exactly how Nintendo gets you to spend money on stuff that might just end up in a landfill in a few years. For those of you that don’t know: today is the release of Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, a game where you decorate the homes…

Twitch Is Adding A Bunch Of New Features

Twitch is far-and-away the biggest video game streaming service on the planet, but it’s definitely not perfect. As part of a kick-off keynote for TwitchCon today, Twitch announced a handful of new features that are coming to the streaming platform in early 2016. Biggest on the list is video uploads—sans streaming. If you decided to…

SOMA Players Crack Hidden Code, Unlock The Game That Could Have Been

SOMA players have discovered—and solved—something weird. If you shove a plastic toy into the toilet and flush, a set of numbers appear on the screen. If you find enough of these numbers and use them as the password for a file called _supersecrets.rar in SOMA’s installation directory, you’ll find something special. Warning: We are going…

Redesigning A Game That People Play When They’re Bored

As the fall gaming season sucks up all the hours in the day, so does the plentiful bounty of gaming writing that goes along with it. Worth Reading is here to guide you through the fog, a guide to the best games writing from the past week or so. Hey, You Should Read These “Redesigning…

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Won’t Have A Campaign On Last-Gen Consoles

The single player portion of Treyarch’s next Call of Duty game has proven too much for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, the studio announced today. Treyarch wasn’t building the last-generation versions of Black Ops 3, though it was overseeing them. Beenox and Mercenary Technology had been assigned the unenviable task of making the game…

A Former Heroin Addict’s New Memoir About Video Games

“When it comes to probing questions about their intimate life as computer-game players, most people don’t have much to say,” writes Michael W. Clune in his absorbing new memoir Gamelife. “They’ve never thought about it. Or they’ve repressed it. Or they’ve forgotten. Or they’re embarrassed. Society has convinced them that computer games are a trivial…

Here’s What A Publishing Deal With EA Looks Like

Curious about the nitty-gritty details behind a video game publisher’s development deals? Rhode Island’s got you covered. This afternoon, as part of an ongoing legal war with ex-game developer-slash-MLB pitcher Curt Schilling and his failed company, 38 Studios, the Rhode Island Superior Court released a treasure trove of documents including depositions, e-mails, and contracts. There…

Dragon Ball Z Villains, Looking Vicious

Edgar Gómez’s Dragon Ball Z fan art transforms the villains into characters from a Spawn comic or a horror game. Very cool. After all, these creatures are among the most powerful and evil beings in the Dragon Ball universe, so they deserve to look scary. Here’s Majin Boo, Perfect Cell and a maniac-looking Frieza so…

GLaDOS Steals the Show in LEGO Dimensions‘ Portal Moments

Valve’s homicidal disk operating system doesn’t do “cameo” or “guest star.” The moment GLaDOS arrives in LEGO Dimensions it’s her game, from her face-off with one of science fiction’s greatest villains to the bittersweet ending. I feel like I just finished a new Portal game. Warning: We’ll be spoiling the hell out of the Portal…

Cool Minecraft Shaders Distort The Landscape

YouTuber BruceKnowsHow found a way to make minecart rides in Minecraft 100% more interesting. After modding in some graphical shaders he was able to transform the game into a dreamy journey. Even without a VR headset or watching the 360 degree version (via Prosthetic Knowledge), it’s just too trippy. This video was a nightmare. I…

Here’s a Terrifying VR Simulator

What happens when a cable robot meets virtual reality? Frightening times, it seems. Here, just watch the video (via Culture Lab). This cable robot simulator comes from Heinrich Bülthof, a professor at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. Nope. Nope. Nope. To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him…

Rainbow Six Siege is Brutal, Challenging, and Fun

Ubisoft has opened the doors to another Rainbow Six Siegebeta and if you’ve been fortunate to get ahold of one of the keys the publisher has been throwing around then you’ve access from now until Monday, September 28th. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Those plans you had for the weekend, cancel them. Siege…

Check Out These Dumbass Review Restrictions

This is something we’ve looked at in detail before, but an email flew into my inbox last week that was so hilarious I thought it was worth sharing. To recap: in this job, when sent a copy of a game for review, you’ll often also be sent a list of restrictions of things you can…

Hack Makes PlayStation TV Remotely Useful

PlayStation TV: good idea, poor execution. Mostly because there were a ton of great Vita games that the little box wouldn’t support. But hey, where Sony came up short, users are getting the job done. While Sony had a reason to exclude a bunch of Vita games from PSTV support—traditional controllers couldn’t replicate things like…

Mario Maker Course Is A Tragic Tale of Friendship

Nobody told me Super Mario Maker was gonna get this real, god damn. While there are plenty of batshit difficult courses circulating in Mario Maker, my favorite type of level is the kind that tries to tell astory. The tools are pretty limited, at least when it comes to narrative design, so people have to…

League Of Legends Arcade Cabinet Is A Brilliant Idea

For a lot of people it’s the only game they play anyway, so why not make a shrine to it? AnthonyMJohnson, who recently began building custom arcade cabinets, decided to build one for League, and it looks great! It took a few days to get all the necessary images and plans together, but the time…

Perks Are Changing Big Time In Fallout 4 

Vault dwellers are not born. They are made—by you. And judging from what Bethesda has shared so far, it looks like Fallout’s character creation is getting a major facelift. As always, you will pick SPECIAL stats that end up determining your skills and proficiency out in the field. Each of these stats will have its…

Watch Me Try To Beat Giant Bomb‘s Absurd Mario Maker Stage [Done!]

Remember that absurd GIF from earlier today? I’m going to try beating that Super Mario Maker level right now, as if my life depended on it. The level in question, F829-0000-0066-E98B, was a collaboration between the editors of Giant Bomb, my home away from home, and its community. From what I can tell, there is…

Not Everyone Is Supporting A Possible Voice Actor Strike

It’s possible the people who voice many of gaming’s colorful characters will go on strike, depending on how a SAG-AFTRA union vote goes down next month. As various performers have started voicing their support on Twitter, so have a couple of game developers, and not everyone’s 100% behind what’s going on. Here’s what performers represented…

Adrift, a quiet video game about a space station in the wake of a catastrophic disaster, has been delayed to next year. It’ll now launch alongside the Oculus Rift.